CV

After a career in the civil service, Su completed the MA Drawing course at UAL Wimbledon in September 2017, having previously studied under artists including: Jeanette Appleton, Clare Bryan, Sarah Bryant, Tony Hull and Lin Kerr.

She is a member of HB Drawing.

Exhibitions in 2025

Drawings from my Home series will be part of group shows this winter at Fronteer Gallery in Sheffield and at Orleans House Twickenham. The Fronteer Gallery Open 2025 runs until 28 November at Unit 4, Orchard Square, Sheffield S1 2FB and is open Tues, Wed, Thurs from 11 to 4 and Saturdays 2.15.to 5.15.

The Orleans House Winter Show 2025 will open in their Stables Gallery on Friday 28 November, with a public reception from 6-8pm, and will then run to Saturday 1 February. The gallery is usually open Tues-Sun 10-5.

A drawing from the Home series and a piece of felt from my Found in Translation project were part of a show in Lisbon Shadow/Sombra organised by artist and curator Olivia Hicks at Fórum Grandela in January and February, including work by about a dozen artists from or living in Portugal and the UK.

Previous Exhibitions

2024

Another End of the Year show took place at Rod Kitson’s Isolation Art studio-cum-gallery in Rotherhithe, London SE16 over Christmas and New Year and included another piece of my felt in a box.

A drawing that started as a mistake was selected for the first Open Drawing Exhibition in the Arctic Circle, at the Napa Gallery, Rovaniemi, Finland, over the Christmas and New Year period.

One of my Capital Ring drawings was selected for the Winter Show at Orleans House Gallery in Twickenham TW1 3BL, which ran from November to early February 2025.

The entire Home series was shown in HB Drawing‘s show Side by Side at No Format Gallery, Deptford, London in November 2024. No Format Gallery announced its closure at the end of December. HB wanted to take the opportunity to celebrate relationships between artists who use drawing, a community supported over the years by No Format.

One of the drawings in the series Home was in a show on the theme of Dwellings at Fronteer Gallery, Orchard Square, Sheffield in October 2024.

The inaugural Textiles Open at No Format Gallery Casting House, Moulding Lane, Deptford, London SE14 6BN in July included a felt piece presented in an acrylic box, not yet uploaded to this website.

The SFSA Drawing Open at No Format Gallery, Deptford, London in May included my drawing Tarpaulin from the series Home.

Landscapes and Seascapes at The Open Gallery, Halifax in March included my drawing ‘seascapes‘.

The annual Diana Armfield Prize for Drawing from Observation In March included one of my studies undertaken at the V&A, this one of the back of Canova’s Three Graces.

An exhibition on the theme of Home at Fronteer Gallery in Sheffield in February/March included my drawing Hearth.

2023

The HB Drawing group show What If I …? at the Kaleidoscope Gallery in Sevenoaks, Kent In September/October looked at how being in a collective helps to support and develop our individual practices. It included a selection of pieces that illustrate how my work has been influenced and inspired by our walking projects, our drawing days at museums and galleries and the residency I did in Wales last year with other HB artists.

The first Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Drawing Prize 2023 exhibition in September/October included my drawing Capital Ring 10 stuck.alone.alert/legend.fells.melt.

The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Summer Show at their gallery in St Paul’s Square, Birmingham B3 1SA, in July included my drawing Seascapes.

One of my Capital Ring drawings was in a group show called Urban Jungle at the Fronteer Gallery in Sheffield held in May and June 2023; and another was in a group show in Sheffield called Delphic, at the Cupola Gallery, Hillsborough in June and July.

I also contributed a drawing to a show organised in Paris by Chlöe Briggs to celebrate 10 years of her initiative, Drawing Is Free, designed to bring people together around the pleasure and practice of drawing. The show was held at the Paris College of Art, 15 rue Fénelon, 75010, Paris in May and June 2023.

I contributed a small piece of felt to the show #mybodyinmyhands at SVA John Street Gallery, Stroud in May 2023. Both online and real life shows are part of a research project into ‘how creativity can be used to express how it feels to be in your body: the sensory, the relationship of internal and external, the physical manifestation of mental states of being and how creativity helps to manage and describe these states.’

The SFSA Drawing Open at No Format Gallery, Deptford, London SE14 in May 2023 included a very-hard-to-photograph drawing of Richmond Bridge in the rain.

Useful Drawings at Eye to Pencil Studio, 26 Exmouth Market, London in March/April 2023 included a ‘walking and drawing’ piece and my thoughts on how such drawings are useful to me.

2022

HB Drawing’s latest online show The Mind’s Eye is available to view from 23 November 2022. It features work by 12 artists, including me, who responded to the invitation to draw a mystery object circulated by mail. The drawings explore how we use more than just our eyes as part of the drawing process.

The show Oysterland at No Format Gallery, Deptford, London SE14 in August featured work inspired by HB Drawing’s walking projects, As I Walked Out and the Capital Ring, including 14 of my drawings. Images of the show are on the HB Drawing website here.

I shared a residency at Mawddach in Wales, with two fellow HB Drawing artists, Janine Hall and Ruth Richmond from 28 May to 10 June. Take a look at our Mawddach Diary Instagram account to see what we did.

SFSA Drawing Open 2022 showing the work of 100 artists, each submitting one drawing of their choice, included one of my Wish You Were Here postcard drawings.

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021 included one of my windowscape drawings, when it toured Wiltshire in January to March 2022 and Dundee in March and April 2022.

MAP a show, curated across three venues in North Kent in March 2022, looked at how maps function as ‘a symbolic visual representation of the relationships between elements within a given space or time, either physical, imaginary or metaphorical’ and included one of my Wish you were here postcard series.

2021

The End of the Year Show at The Art of Isolation, Surrey Quays, London SE16 7LL included two of my new felt pieces in the Lost and Found series.

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021 one of my windowscape drawings was selected for the final exhibition which was launched with a prize-giving ceremony on 29 September 2021 at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London. The show was opened to the public at Trinity Buoy Wharf in November 2021 and toured other venues in the UK through 2022.

Postcards for Perec a collection of images created in response to one of the 243 postcard messages written by Georges Perec to his friend Italo Calvino in 1978. It includes my postcard created in response to the message: ‘Our motel’s name is La Tagada. Peace and quiet, and all that. There’s a two-star place not far away where the guests are a bit much, boo sucks! Kisses.’

Timeframe – an HB Drawing group show at No Format Gallery, Deptford, London SE14 6BN in September included new work from me and eight other artists. Full details on the HB site here.

Open Studio, The Black Barn, Sandy Lane, Iken, Suffolk IP12 2HE over the late August Bank Holiday weekend included work by several HB artists and others. More on the HB website

Petri Dish Project at Tebbs Gallery, Spitalfields Street, London in August 2021 included my piece Kaleidoscope of Light.

Figurative Art Now an online show celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Federation of British Artists included three of my drawings.

Royal West of England Academy (RWA) Open Exhibition 2020 my drawing ‘portakabins, Clapham Junction’ was selected for this show at the RWA, Bristol from February to April 2021.

2020

Southwark Park Galleries 36th Annual Open Exhibition 2020  a large national online show, which included one of my On the Wings of the Morning diptychs

The Sea is Here several of my long-exposure photographs are featured in an art book on the theme of ‘absence as presence’ published in October 2020. For more information on the project, the artists involved and the book click here.

ING Discerning Eye 2020 my drawing ‘yellow flats, Trinity Buoy Wharf’ was  selected for this show, in the section curated by David Remfrey RA.

Royal West of England Academy (RWA) Open Exhibition 2020 my drawing ‘portakabins, Clapham Junction’ was selected for this show which was online in 2020 but due to be open in real life in 2021.

Found in Translation an HB Drawing group online show launched on 1 July 2020, showcasing selected work springing from our long-term project to ‘draw from drawings’.

Diana Armfield Memorial Competition Exhibition  at the Barn Church, Kew in February/March.

2019

Snapshot – an HB Drawing group show at NoFormat Gallery, Deptford, London SE14 6BN. See images on the HB Drawing website here.

Hollow Chambers, Crypt Gallery, Euston Road, London NW1 2BA

Signature Art Prize 2018/19, Trinity Art Gallery, London City Island, E14 – finalist

2018

Seven Artists at Sevenoaks – new work inspired by the British Museum Archives, Kaleidscope Gallery, Sevenoaks, Kent: see more on the HB Drawing site

Elbow Room vol 19 August 2018 includes my photographic work. You can buy it online here.

Derwent Art Prize 2018, Mall Galleries, London SW1 – shortlisted

Dissecting the Archive, Wimbledon College of Arts, London SW19

Open Studios, The Black Barn, Sandy Lane, Iken, Suffolk IP12 2HE

My Muybridge, Kingston Museum, Kingston, Surrey

Kingston Artists Open Studios, Hawks Road Studios, Kingston, Surrey

SFSA Drawing Open 2018,  No Format Gallery, Deptford, London SE8

2017

Reflections and Transformations, part of Merton Arts Festival 2017, 26 Paces Gallery, Wimbledon College of Arts, London SW19

Unframed – work inspired by the British Museum Prints and Drawings Department, Wimbledon College of Arts, London SW19

MA Summer Show, Wimbledon College of Arts, London SW19

Exclusive Preview – for one night only!, Centre for Drawing, Wimbledon College of Arts, London SW19

Kingston Artists Open Studios, Hawks Road Studios, Kingston, Surrey

New Perspectives, Centre for Recent Drawing, London N1

Same Difference, Cass Artspace, Kingston, Surrey

2016

Drawn Together, Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks, Kent

In the Frame, Wimbledon College of Arts, London SW19

Out of Line, Centre for Recent Drawing, London N1

2015

We All Draw @UAL, The Bargehouse, London SE1

Becoming a Line, solo project, The Bargehouse, London SE1

2014

Artists Books, Riverside Gallery, Richmond, Surrey

Collections:

Winchester School of Art Library, Artists’ Book Collection